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I dig this overall process (and transparency), but I'm bummed that ultimately it came down to "I have an idea." It's an idea that has some customer validation, but the value of thi…

Android link correction. This is the paid ($0.99) version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tenromans.birthday...

I built a simple Android app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tenromans.birthdaycake.free And I discovered today that a developer has taken the graphics and rebuilt it fo…

Orket = Orkut, further proof that there wasn't pressure to use it!

I worked at Google for a number of years during which time lots of products were coming out or ramping up. For instance, at the time Orket was Google's social strategy du jour. The…

Android, unfortunately does not have this functionality. All permissions have to be requested up front, whether or not they are needed for all users.

I realized over the weekend that one of my favorite software applications is Microsoft Windows Media Center. Surprising because my primary computer is a Macbook Pro. In my living r…

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Noah's pretty active on HN (at least reading), so I expect he'll chime in soon.

Good question on this one. I'm not sure. My understanding was that Amazon was concerned more with equitable pricing across app stores. i.e., you can't sell the app for $0.99 with G…

Actually, I've had some back and forth with Amazon over the past few hours. Their current policy is "the developer shouldn't been penalized for issues outside of their core binary.…

I've been using FB auth only for a year or so on one of my Android apps. It's centered specifically around social sharing and I'm focusing on US based users at first. Given the mai…

Over the course of the last year or so I created a beta tester infrastructure to help me test my new paid apps in the Android market. I use it to give out an early free version my …

Great work. Can you expand on the FB oauth_id comment, how are you storing the ids now?

I've had a laundry list of goals for a few years now that I review every month. I don't think it's working for me because I don't seem to be achieving them. What methods, technique…

Yes. UI is one thing, but many devs out there are using these patterns and everyone reinvents the wheel to implement them.

For most Internet/technology savvy folks this won't be appealing. A few years back I realized that most of my technology purchases were actually "rentals." I purchase them at full …

In general I agree, AdWords (and indeed other Google products) could improve its customer service. But I also know, having worked for several years at Google, that the volume of re…